Miguel Alvarado, charged with carjacking in Oak Lawn and reckless driving in Bridgeview, was found unresponsive in Cook ...

State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed. Chief ...

Cook County’s top prosecutor says electronic monitoring isn’t keeping the public safe when used for accused violent criminals ...

A Cook County man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after a McLean County jury found him guilty of injuring another ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself ... the judiciary in Illinois is not subject to the state’s open records law.

A Springfield senator filed bills after the deadly 2024 police shooting that drew scrutiny of a sheriff’s hiring.

A 19-year-old man arrested last month after Cook County Sheriff’s officers said they found him asleep behind the wheel of a ...

The sheriff launched the electronic monitoring program in 1989 to reduce overcrowding in the Cook County Jail. It was intended ... Burke’s claims. But the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice ...

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday ...